Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Diplomat. Served as United States Minister to Turkey from 1887 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1899, as United States Secretary of Commerce in the Taft Administration from 1906 to 1909, and as United States Ambassador to Turkey again from 1909 to 1910. In 1912 he was an unsuccessful candidtae for the Governor of New York. (bio by: K)